With the end of the 4th season of Whitedoom's 1v1 tournament, I would like to provide a hopefully interesting way for us to practice, while still keeping things a little competitive. In this ladder, participants can join and leave anytime, starting from the bottom of the leaderboard and climbing to the top by challenging each participant one by one.

► Rules & Information

Only stock cars are allowed, excluding DC cars. This generally means we'll only use Toyeca unless we want more of a challenge or play just for fun.

You must stick to the same car for the entirety of a match. This means you can't switch to Humma, Cougar or Panga halfway through just for tracks that they'll benefit from.

The challenged player gets to choose the first track; afterwards, the loser of each race has the right to choose the next track. We can change this to random tracks in the future if we want to, but I think it would make things more difficult for the host (it requires them to only have the allowed tracks in their Re-Volt installation).

The only tracks allowed are those listed in the Classic Tracks page on RVIO. I know that some custom tracks can be a bit problematic, so hopefully this will limit the selection to ones that are generally well-liked. In time, we can create a dedicated tracklist for this ladder once we have an idea of what the participants want.

You may not choose the same track more than once during a match. This is to ensure you do not win simply by repeatedly choosing a track you excel at.

Tracks may not be raced in reverse, mirrored or reverse-mirrored. They are usually not optimised in reverse, and not everyone can adapt to mirrored versions. It's ideal to race on tracks that everyone is familiar with.

Anyone can host the matches, but replay files must be provided for each match so I can verify them. This is a more casual event, but I think it doesn't hurt to have a verification system in place so there aren't any misunderstandings. To enable replays, start the game with the "-savereplays" flag. Replays can be found in your RVGL installation directory, under the "replays" folder.

Pick-ups must be disabled, and every race should have 4 laps. This matches the settings used in Whitedoom's tournament.

The first player to win 3 races wins the match. This means that a match can have between 3 to 5 races.

If you know you will be inactive for a while, let us know. You will be greyed out on the ladder and players will be able to skip matches with you, but this way you won't have to start from the bottom again once you're back. The maximum time you can be inactive is 3 months. You will be automatically marked as inactive if you give no sign of life at all after a month, or after you fail to respond to a challenge at all.

If you don't want to participate anymore, just let us know. You'll be taken off the leaderboard and will have to start at the bottom again if you wish to rejoin. You can also do this if you make it to the top and want to start over. However, you must wait a month if you wish to rejoin, so this system isn't abused.

► Challenging Other Players

To join the fun, simply challenge the player listed at the bottom of the leaderboard, shown below. You can do it here in this thread or communicate with them on other platforms such as Discord. If you win, you will be placed above them, and you'll be able to challenge the next player above you. If you lose, you'll be placed below.

You must answer a challenge within a week. No exceptions. If you can't do it, you will lose the match by default. Just challenge the challenger once you can race again.

You must wait 7 days before challenging a player you already raced against This prevents them from getting stuck in a loop if they want to climb up the ladder.

You must send out a challenge at least once per month. This is to ensure we don't have skilled players at the bottom of the ladder, preventing less skilled players from advancing.

You will be kicked off the ladder if you are completely inactive for 3 months. If you return after you've been kicked off, you will have to start from the bottom again. The top player in the leaderboard is an obvious exception to this since they can't challenge anyone, but it's unlikely they'll remain unchallenged for long.

If a player is crossed out on the leaderboard, you may skip any matches with them. This means that they are currently marked as inactive and will not respond to your challenges for the time being. You can directly jump to the next available player on the ladder.

If you need any further clarification or would like to chat with us, join us on the 1v1 Discord server!

It's gonna go a bit slower from this point on, but I'll be around. Ping me on Discord or post here if you'd like me to host for you. Knowing the time in advance can help.
P.S.: I temporarily lowered the challenge cooldown from 7 days to 3 days. I imagine we should let things develop a bit faster for the first couple of weeks or so, and we can get a bit more practice before the next season this way as well.

Note: I made a mistake and accidentally allowed the players to race on Toy World Aquatica: Redux, which is not part of the track selection. Since this was my own mistake, and both players agreed to count the race, the results were kept in.

► MMUD (3 - 0) MODDIE

MMUD drove ToyecaMODDIE drove Toyeca

Lunar won by MMUDToy World Mayhem won by MMUDHoliday Camp: California Edition won by MMUD

From this point on, I'm listing matches as Challenged vs Challenger (like Home vs Away). The previous two posts don't account for this, instead listing the players alphabetically, but you can see the correct format in the match history within the OP.

If you know you will be inactive for a while, let us know. You will be greyed out on the ladder and players will be able to skip matches with you, but this way you won't have to start from the bottom again once you're back. The maximum time you can be inactive is 3 months. You will be automatically marked as inactive if you give no sign of life at all after a month, or after you fail to respond to a challenge at all.

If you don't want to participate anymore, just let us know. You'll be taken off the leaderboard and will have to start at the bottom again if you wish to rejoin. You can also do this if you make it to the top and want to start over. However, you must wait a month if you wish to rejoin, so this system isn't abused.

You must send out a challenge at least once per month. This is to ensure we don't have skilled players at the bottom of the ladder, preventing less skilled players from advancing.

As with anything else in this ladder, I'm happy to receive feedback and alter anything that isn't to the participants' liking. Kinda just working things out as we go along, too.

I just want to post again, how great this 1v1 Ladder is. It's really fun. It's a great opportunity to do some training for Whitedoom's 1v1 League. Also, it's great to see how nice the community is inside the 1v1 Discord channel to each other. It's really refreshing, and I really enjoy to be part of it.

I did a small statistic, about the current track usage of the 1v1 Ladder, by the way. Here it is.

Unfortunately, this might be the last post I make with detailed match information. It turns out that managing this ladder to the extent I wanted is a fair bit more work than I expected, and will have to postpone that until we can automate things. Until then, if you'd like to help with maintaining the ladder, please let me know! Already got Kiwi helping out, but the more the better.

Hajducsekb has taken over managing the ladder. All the information has been moved to a spreadsheet, please look at that for the leaderboard instead. I'll figure out a way to connect the OP to the spreadsheet later.